Steam-condenser.



PATLNTED JAN. a, 1903.

0. E. NICHOLAS.

STEAM CONDENSER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1902 N0 MODEL.

UNrrEn TATES CHARLES EDWARD NICHOLAS, OF HAWTHORN, "VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.

STEAM-CONDENSER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,599, dated January 6, 1903- Application filed June 12, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES EDWARD NICHOLAS, engineer, a subject of the King'of Great Britainand Ireland,residing at Athelstane, Denham street, Hawthorn, in the British State of Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia, have invented a new and useful Improved St-eam-Condenser, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved steam-condenser for use mainly with highpressure engines.

It consists of a rectangular oblong-shaped shallow chamber constructed with a marginal frame of Wood or other material and with its sides, which are of large area, formed of corrugated iron or other corrugated metal, while the chamber is divided into a number of narrow compartments by a series of transverse division or baffle plates, the edges of which abut against the corrugated sides, but do not fit into the corrugations of the metal sheets. The exhaust-steam enters at one end of the chamber and travels therein from compartment to compartment through the corrugations above and below the edges of the baffle plates, and thus the steam is caused to impinge upon the metallic sides which form the cooling or condensing medium, while the condensed steam or resultant water passes away at or near the other end of chamber.

The invention will now be described, aided by a reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which- Figure l is a general plan of condenser, showing its framing and arrangement of the division or bafiie plates, with the corrugated side plate partly removed; Fig. 2, a trans verse section through line a a, Fig; 1; and Fig. 3, a longitndinalsection through line?) b, Fig. 1'. Fig. 4 is an edge view, and Fig. San end view, of the condenser.

A is the edge or marginal frame; B, the corrugated metal side walls; 0, the division or baffle plates D, the exhaust-steam inlet, and E the outlet for condensed steam or resultant water. The corrugated metal sides have their longitudinal edges A fiattened out and secured between the side plates by bolts A as shown in Fig. 2, while the end edges of the corrugated sheets are seated on fierial No. 111,395. (No model.)

corresponding corrugations formed in the framingtoreceivethem. Thejointsbetween the edges of the corrugated sheets and the framing are made good by the addition of a suitable insertion or packing, and then the corrugated sheets are firmly secured both to the side frame and to the division-plate with screws. The division or baffle plates 0 have each of their ends let into the side frame A, while, as before stated, the corrugated sides rest'and are secured to their upper and lower straight edges, so that between each adjoining division -plate a compartment 0' is formed.

to impinge upon, as the steam entering the condenser is led by the division or baffle plates from one compartment to the next through the corrugated openings B between the inner walls of plates and the straight edges of the division or baffle plates 0, as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 3. The cooling agent applied to the outer surface of the corrugated sides is cold water, which is caused to circulate or flow over the corrugated outer walls or, as an alternative, the condenser may be immersed in cold water. Y

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a steam-condenser, the combination with division or baffie plates having straight edges, of corrugated sides secured to said straight ed ges,'the corrugated openings formin g passage-ways for the steam, substantially as described.

2. A steam-condenser, comprising a marginal frame A provided with inlet branch D and outlet branch E division or baffle plates 0 within said frame and the corrugated metal sides B all arranged and secured substantially as herein described and shown.

3. A steam-condenser consisting of a narrow inclosed chamber having its side walls formed of corrugated metal and within the In witness whereof I have hereunto set my chamber transverse division or baffle plates, l hand in presence of two witnesses.

u on the strai ht ed es of which and a margi hal frame the cori ugated sides bear and CHARLES EDWARD NICHOLAS 5 with inlet and outlet branches communicating with the chambei substantially as described and shown.

WVitnesses:

BEDLINGTON BODYCOMB, W. J. S. THOMPSON. 

